WBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[badgerwarhawk]

The reason no one has heard from me recently is that after making 14 of the 18 posts made between 12/13 and 1/13 I started feeling like I was talking to myself and concluded that there wasn't that much interest in discussing WIAC womens basketball this year. 

As far as Superior goes I only listened to a short portion of the radio broadcast.  He made no mention of the officiating while I was listening.  I'm not shocked that we were beaten.  You aren't going to win many games shooting 30%.  I mentioned a few weeks ago that the Yellow Jackets were getting my attention.  Linzmeier is a legit POY candidate and Urmanski is playing well.  They are obviously a team that can beat anyone on any given night. 

Another loss last night.  As I was busy at the men's game I wasn't able to follow the game however when I see that we scored 49 points in 40 minutes of basketball I can probably safely conclude that we didn't play well and our shot % probably isn't any better than it was Wednesday night.  The WARHAWKS are obviously in a slump.  Hopefully Stout at home on Saturday afternoon will get us back on track.

[thrunt01]

The reason no one has heard from me recently is that after making 14 of the 18 posts made between 12/13 and 1/13 I started feeling like I was talking to myself and concluded that there wasn't that much interest in discussing WIAC womens basketball this year. 

As far as Superior goes I only listened to a short portion of the radio broadcast.  He made no mention of the officiating while I was listening.  I'm not shocked that we were beaten.  You aren't going to win many games shooting 30%.  I mentioned a few weeks ago that the Yellow Jackets were getting my attention.  Linzmeier is a legit POY candidate and Urmanski is playing well.  They are obviously a team that can beat anyone on any given night. 

Another loss last night.  As I was busy at the men's game I wasn't able to follow the game however when I see that we scored 49 points in 40 minutes of basketball I can probably safely conclude that we didn't play well and our shot % probably isn't any better than it was Wednesday night.  The WARHAWKS are obviously in a slump.  Hopefully Stout at home on Saturday afternoon will get us back on track.

No prob bob. You talk to yourself to much and they send you away, trust me I know. 

[Voice of the Titans]

Can someone point me in the direction of the NCAA/WIAC rulebook where it says that fans cannot use specific names while cheering during a game?

Chants and cheers are up to the discretion of the event manager. If he/she feels it's inappropriate or especially unsportsmanlike, they can take action. It'd be ridiculous to try and document every possible chant or cheer that is/is not permissible, so you place it in the hands of reasonable people to make the call.

You may commence your whine.

No whine. I am just wondering how a coach can say, "Make them stop. That is a rule and they are NOT allowed to do that!"

[cubs]

Can someone point me in the direction of the NCAA/WIAC rulebook where it says that fans cannot use specific names while cheering during a game?

Chants and cheers are up to the discretion of the event manager. If he/she feels it's inappropriate or especially unsportsmanlike, they can take action. It'd be ridiculous to try and document every possible chant or cheer that is/is not permissible, so you place it in the hands of reasonable people to make the call.

You may commence your whine.

No whine. I am just wondering how a coach can say, "Make them stop. That is a rule and they are NOT allowed to do that!"

You mean your mentor Coach Schumacher didn't pass that memo along while you were an assistant for her at Oshkosh West?   

[Voice of the Titans]

That would have been a NFHS/WIAA rule, which there is not. I am asking about an NCAA/WIAC rule. Geez things get off topic in a hurry.

[Just Bill]

That would have been a NFHS/WIAA rule, which there is not. I am asking about an NCAA/WIAC rule. Geez things get off topic in a hurry.

I can guarantee you there's no specific NCAA rule. I'm pretty sure there's no WIAC rule that specific either, but the sport code is available on the WIAC website, so you could check easily enough. The rules governing crowd control are much more general.

And anyway, it wouldn't be the refs job to stop that behavior, unless it was really awful enough to get their attention. If a coach had a complaint they would need to make it to the designated event manager, who would then decide whether or not to take action.

[cubs]

That would have been a NFHS/WIAA rule, which there is not. I am asking about an NCAA/WIAC rule. Geez things get off topic in a hurry.

Whether it is NFHS/WIAA or NCAA/WIAC the procedure would be the same.  Contact game manager (often times the AD) and they will take care of it.

[Voice of the Titans]

For all the whining coaches do during the game about the rules and how they are interpreted/enforced, I think it is kind of cheap to try and make up a rule because you don't like the crowd chanting your players name every time they touch the ball of shoot a FT.

So how does eveyone think the second half will shape up? Who ends up with the top 2 seeds? Safe picks of Point and WW? Or can Superior or UWO sneak into one?

[cubs]

Not sure if Oshkosh will earn a Top 2 seed, but regardless one has to be impressed with the success that Coach Fischer and the Titans have had up to this point in the season.  After being hired extremely late in the grand scheme of things, he has taken a roster that went 1-15 in WIAC play under Coach Schumacher and got them off to a 14-3 (6-2 WIAC) start.  Other than the addition of Kuehl, the faces are the same, but the results are entirely different.

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS: 86
Stout: 47

Mary Merg's three-pointer opened the scoring for the WARHAWKS and it was off to the races after that.  The lead reached double figures for good after four minutes.  The WARHAWKS lead reached 35 points twice before the half ended with the score 52-19.  The WARHAWKS shot 57% in the half and connected on 6 of 7 three-pointers.  A size advantage led to a 18-6 scoring edge in the paint and 21 Blue Devil turnovers resulted in a 24-4 advantage in points off of them.  Merg led the WARHAWKS with 13 points while Kaitlyn Thill's stat line read 12 points, 5 assists, 3 steals and 4 rebounds.  The WARHAWKS lead reached forty-five points twice in the second half and Stout would get no closer than 31 points.   

The WARHAWKS shot 55% for the game including 9-12 from beyond the arc.  Merg's 13 points led five WARHAWKS in double figures.  Thill and Megan Theune chipped in with 12 points each while Abbie Reeves added 11 points and Courtney Kumerow 10 points.  Kumerow and Thill each had a team high 5 rebounds as the WARHAWKS won the boards 42-30.  Thill had a team high 6 assists and Quandt a game high 4 steals.  No WARHAWK played more than 18 minutes.

Thill's first steal, 20 seconds into the game, gave her the program's career steal record previously held by her sister, Trisha Thill.  Thill's career steal mark stands at 271 good for sixth in conference history.  With a full season and the remainder of this season to go Thill would seem a lock to surpass Sue Christiansen's (EC) conference record of 307.  Kumerow also reached career milestones as she became just the sixth player in program history to record 500 rebounds (504) and score 1000 points (1004).

Katelynne Folkers led the Blue Devils with 10 points. 

[MinnesotaBoy]

It is amazing that UW Superior is ranked.  I am a friend of thier coach and I am excited to see them having a good year.  I am going to try to get to the River Falls and LaCrosse road games.  I have watched some of the games on streaming. 

[phoenix_rising]

Spouse went to UW-S vs UWEC game last night and said Soup women played great defense early on. Appeared to lag in the last quarter of play (or UWEC became more offensive) but managed a win. I like defense. A lot.

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS: 65
Stevens Point: 59

After the WARHAWKS blanked on their first couple possessions the Pointers Josie Schultz opened the scoring.  However Kaitlyn Thill's steal and breakaway layup on the Pointers next possession tied the game and Mary Merg's jumper gave the WARHAWKS the early lead.  The WARHAWKS maintained a lead which ranged from a single point to a high of six points for the next twelve minutes before the Pointers went ahead on a three-pointer from Sam Barber.   After that the Pointers made a 10-3 run over the final four minutes of the half to lead 28-20 when it ended.  Point outshot the WARHAWKS 43% to 32% in the half and hit 4 of 8 three-pointers while the WARHAWKS missed all six of their attempts.  Barber's 11 points led both teams while Thill's 7 points paced the WARHAWKS.  Baskets by Mary Merg and Lisa Palmer to start the second half cut the deficit in half but the Pointers responded with a pair of baskets themselves and the WARHAWKS were right back where they started with eighteen and a half minutes remaining.  A 9-1 WARHAWKS run over the next three minutes tied the game 33-33 however the Pointers answered and maintained a lead ranging from 1-4 points for the next six minutes until Thill sank a three-pointer and knotted the score for a second time 44-44.  Barber hit another three-pointer putting the Pointers back on top and they held the lead again for another five minutes until Palmer's old fashioned three point play gave the WARHAWKS a lead 54-52 that they would hold to the end. 

The shooting percentages reversed themselves in the second half as the WARHAWKS shot 57% in the half while the Pointers shot 33%.  Tunovers (WW:13, SP: 22) played a critical role as the WARHAWKS held a 29-13 scoring advantage in points off of them.  Though the Pointers had the advantage on the boards (45-33 total, 14-7 offensive) they only outscored the WARHAWKS 8-5 on second chances and the WARHAWKS held a 24-18 advantage on points in the paint.

Thill's 14 points led the WARHAWKS while Merg added 11 points and three others scored 8 points apiece.  Merg and Megan Theune had a game high 4 steals each and Palmer's 11 rebounds were also a game high.  Merg also had a team high 3 assists.

Barber finished with a game high 19 points.  Barber also had a team high 10 rebounds to complete a double-double.  Alyssa Olp's 5 assists were a game high.

Elsewhere:

Superior shows that they're more than Linzmeier and Urmanski as the pair combine for just seven points in the 56-53 win over Eau Claire.  Kristin Nett (14) and Deandra Vavra (13) pace the Yellow Jackets.  Courtney Lewis's 20 points leads the BluGolds.

Platteville takes seventeen more shots and make five more baskets than Oshkosh but the Titans go 19-23 from the charity stripe, while the Pioneers miss all five of their attempts, and win by ten, 62-52.  Megan Wenig leads the Titans with 16 points.  Alyssa Krajco's 14 points leads Platteville.

It takes an overtime but River Falls prevails over Stout 73-65.  The Falcons pull down twenty-three offensive rebounds and outrebound the Blue Devils 51-40 but the difference comes from the free throw line where the Falcons outscore the Blue Devils 31-21.  Led by Brittany Gregorich and Richell Mehus with 15 points each five Flacons score in double figures.  Shelby Sterba's 14 points led Stout.

     

[phoenix_rising]

I need evidence that UW-Superior live stats often don't work. If you've had trouble, please reply. Thanks

[phoenix_rising]

Superior shows that they're more than Linzmeier and Urmanski as the pair combine for just seven points in the 56-53 win over Eau Claire

They may not have carried the team, but they're teaching the team how to play basketball. Urmanski was a dynamic player for a couple years with precious little support. Superior just never had the depth to sustain 40 minutes of good play. They often faded badly in the second half after holding their own in the first. Picking up some decent players and having a sparkplug show some gumption--players not afraid to get a little physical--has made a huge difference.

Win or lose, they're a lot more fun to watch now.